Dance Improvisation through Listening – Maddi Fuente Ubani

"Dance Improvisation through Listening" invites participants to explore their own movement through research and improvisation. Movement qualities, states, imagery, sound and voice, and collective composition become creative tools for a process grounded in exploration, imagination, and intuition. Guided physical and poetic exercises open up new ways of relating through the connections between bodies, presence, time, and space.

Working with scores and points of attention, the workshop develops tools that arise from sensation and experience. Personal and collective material can unfold as participants explore their own performative language and cultivate curiosity, attention, and responsiveness to what emerges in the moment. The group alternates between moving, witnessing, and reflecting, sharing and observing one another’s proposals in different settings. Listening becomes both a compositional practice and a way of relating.

Maddi Fuente Ubani (she/they) is a Basque movement practitioner, performer, creator, and facilitator working at the intersection of research and composition in movement and sound. They co-founded the Ore ama Collective in Berlin and support others as a whole-journey doula.